• Transdar

    Origin

    trans + -dar, after the pattern of gaydar.

    Full definition of transdar

    Noun

    transdar

    (plural transdars)
    1. (slang) The ability to detect whether or not a person is transgendered/transsexual by observing that person.
      • 1996, 24 July, Janet W. Hardy, Re: Independence Day - The movie, I found out about 20 minutes into the workshop that at least six of the men in attendance had been born women. Not one of them had twigged my "transdar."
      • 2000, 26 July, Cheryl, Re: everyone flame me, I deserve it., My hearing isn't that great, but my transdar immediately zoned in on him.
      • 2013, Asia Friedman, Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies, University of Chicago Press (2013), ISBN 9780226023465, page 59:Other respondents offered similar descriptions of transdar as a keen understanding of the most important sex cues.
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